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"Every day when I go on social media, I’m subjected to another bigoted,
misogynistic, or racist meme featuring terrible grammar. No matter how many
times I block individuals or publications who share those memes, they always
turn up again the next day.
I recently wrote an article about the historical link between grammar and
racial oppression. During the Jim Crow era, black voters were disenfranchised
when they were forced to pass impossible grammar tests before voting. I’ve also
received a ton of problematic comments from entitled white people on this
article.
When a privileged white author makes a grammatical error in a novel, critics
will justify it as, “a deliberate literary choice.” When writers of other races
have errors in a manuscript, the manuscript is buried. If there is a mechanism
for allowing grammatical errors, why can’t it be applied to writers of all
races?
I think the most disturbing aspect of this argument is how casually it will be
dismissed by educated people who should know better. It’s almost always the
case that when you point out an aspect of institutionalized racism, a large
contingent of people will default to denial and turn off their critical
thinking skills.
I’ve come to believe that entitled white people flaunt their bad grammar as a
celebration of their fundamental racism. I’ve seen it on social media, I’ve
seen it in the publishing industry, and I’ve seen it in a business setting. Our
society is more prejudicial about grammatical errors depending the race of the
writer."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
